Katy Perry won a major real estate battle on Wednesday, with a Los Angeles judge ruling that the singer will get the chance to buy a former Loz Feliz convent.

The hilltop convent is highly coveted real estate, with Perry offering $14.5 million for the property. Two nuns who used to live there, however, tried to sell the property to entrepreneur Dana Hollister.

A local Catholic archbishop argued that the nuns did not own the property, and he tried to sell it to Perry. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Bowick saw it his way, ruling on Wednesday that the nuns’ attempts to sell the building were improper.

She also ruled that Los Angeles’ archbishop has to authorize any sale of the property, and that the nuns did not clear the sale with him first.

Bowick’s ruling rescinds Hollister’s deed on the property. Hollister had planned to turn that building into a boutique hotel, which drew concerns from some neighbors.

Hollister had already begun to renovate the ex-convent, but was sued by the archdiocese last year, sparking the litigation involving Hollister, the nuns and Perry. Perry met with the nuns in May 2014 to see if an agreement could be worked out. Two of the nuns, however, left the meeting unconvinced.

While Perry has the approval of the archbishop, her bid will also have to be approved by the Vatican to complete the sale.

Sign Up for Daily Insider Newsletter

The Cannes Market, the Cannes Film Festival’s commercial wing, says that its 2019 edition welcomed a record number of participants. It reported 12,527 attendees. The largest group by nationality was from the U.S. with 2,264 participants, followed by France with 1,943 participants, and the U.K. 1,145. Comparable figures for 2018 were not available. The number [...]

Updated: Some of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers are balking at a proposed $30 million settlement of their harassment claims, which could scuttle the deal, Variety has learned. Attorneys in the Weinstein Co. bankruptcy case told Judge Mary Walrath on Thursday that they are close to a global resolution of the civil litigation. The accusers, their lawyers [...]

Dean DeBlois, director and executive producer of DreamWorks Animation’s “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,” and PUBG Corporation CEO CH Kim are the first keynote speakers announced for the 2019 VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy, in October. Since it began 12 years ago, VIEW, which stands for Virtual Interactive Emerging World, has continually [...]

Attorneys in the Weinstein Co. bankruptcy case say they are getting close to reaching a settlement that would compensate Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct accusers. The company went bankrupt last year, as it faced hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and numerous civil suits on behalf of Weinstein’s alleged victims. The company sold to Lantern [...]

Endeavor’s IPO filing Thursday offers a hard look at the company’s financial performance during the past three years during a period of rapid growth for the company that’s home to UFC, WME, Professional Bull Riders and a clutch of other assets. Endeavor is generating solid free cash flow from operations and healthy adjusted earnings for [...]

UPDATED: Nearly 22 years after the Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” was released, the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have assigned to Richard Ashcroft the songwriter royalties and rights from the song, which samples one of their compositions, and removed their writing credits. The news was first reported by the BBC and New Musical Express. [...]

After previously speaking out in support of her friend and WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, Pamela Anderson doesn’t think he would survive an extradition from the U.K. to the U.S. “I hope he gets out of there, but I don’t think he’ll survive extradition. It can’t happen. It’s not even an option. We can’t have him [...]